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| Dec 12, 2024 | Brief: Meati settles false advertising lawsuit over ‘mushroom root’ claims | Alt meat startup Meati Foods has settled a putative class action lawsuit alleging it falsely advertised its cutlets and steaks as ‘made from mushroom root’ when they are in fact made from a strain of filamentous fungus called Neurospora Cra... |
| Oct 15, 2024 | The Protein Revolution: Mycoprotein and Insect Innovations in Food Production | The world of food production is undergoing a seismic shift. Traditional meat sources are being challenged by innovative alternatives. Mycoprotein and insect-based proteins are at the forefront of this revolution. These alternatives promise ... |
| Oct 11, 2024 | 🎥 ENOUGH CEO on a ‘hard 12 months’ scaling up mycoprotein production, buoyed by ‘stunning interest’ from Big Meat | “Candidly,” admits ENOUGH CEO Jim Laird, scaling up mycoprotein production at the firm’s new plant in the Netherlands has been tough. “We’ve had a hard 12 months in terms of production efficiencies.” But demand is strong, with “really stunn... |
| Jul 29, 2024 | Minimally processed alt meat startup Millow nets $2.6m EIC grant, plans new facility | Millow—a Swedish startup known for minimally processed meat substitutes from oats and mycelium—has bagged a €2.4 million ($2.6 million) grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator and up to €15 million ($16.3 million) in eq... |
| Jul 24, 2024 | Mycelium Meat: Meati’s ‘Mushroom Root’ Claim Hit with False Advertising Lawsuit by Consumers | 4 Mins Read Colorado-based food tech startup Meati has been accused of false advertising over its use of ‘mushroom root’ in a class-action lawsuit.
Weeks after concluding a lengthy court battle with The Better Meat Co, mycelium meat produce... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | “Largest” Blind Taste Test Reveals Insights on Plant-Based Meat Preferences | A comprehensive blind taste test has revealed that plant-based nuggets outperform their animal-based counterparts, according to a new report. The study, conducted by Food System Innovations (FSI) under its NECTAR initiative, claims to be th... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Most Plant-Based Products Fall Short of Meat-Eaters’ Taste Expectations, Finds Analysis | 8 Mins Read Most plant-based meats underperform on the taste front for omnivores, and blended meat could be a potential game-changer, detailed sensory analysis has found.
Vegan meat analogues need to be spicier, smokier, sweeter, darker, ju... |
| Jun 19, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Cinnamon Miyoko’s, Vegan Euro 2024 & Fighting Florida | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Upside Foods’ cultivated meat tasting in Florida, a fermented... |
| May 23, 2024 | Enifer's Groundbreaking Journey: A New Era in Mycoprotein Production | Enifer, a pioneering Finnish biotech startup, has recently made waves in the protein industry by securing an impressive €36 million in funding. This substantial investment is set to fuel the construction of a state-of-the-art mycoprotein fa... |
| May 23, 2024 | Biomass fermentation space heats up as Enifer raises $39m to scale mycoprotein plant in Finland | Finnish startup Enifer has raised €36 million ($39.1 million) from a mix of debt and equity to fund a large-scale facility growing a source of mycoprotein that was first commercialized as animal feed 50 years ago.
The funding package includ... |
| May 3, 2024 | Maia Farms Revolutionizes Protein Production with Mycelium Innovation | Maia Farms, a visionary company, secures $2.3 million in pre-seed financing to expand mycelium protein production, leading the charge towards a sustainable and nourishing future. With investors like Joyful Ventures and grant funding from to... |
| May 2, 2024 | Brief: Maia Farms raises $1.7m in pre-seed round to expand mycelium production | Maia Farms—which bagged the Canadian grand prize in the Deep Space Food Challenge with partner Ecoation last month—has raised CAD2.3 million ($1.7 million) in pre-seed financing from a mixture of private capital and grant funding to fuel it... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Meet the founders: Nosh.bio’s Tim Fronzek and Felipe Lino… ‘We’re the only ones making a meat analog from a single ingredient’ | It’s not a great time to try and persuade jaundiced investors to part with cash for alternative proteins, observes Nosh.bio cofounder and CEO Tim Fronzek. But they’ll be hard-pressed to “find another company in the food space that has devel... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | To boldly go… fueled by mycoprotein & greens: Maia Farms and Ecoation win Canadian grand prize in Deep Space Food Challenge | Vancouver-based Maia Farms and Ecoation have bagged the grand prize from the Canadian Space Agency and Impact Canada in the Deep Space Food Challenge with a growing system for mycelium and fresh produce capable of producing 700kg of fresh f... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | Future Food Quick Bites: Oatly Jiggers, Flavoured Barista Milks & A Factory Farming Vote | 5 Mins Read In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers flavoured barista milks, Oatly’s new Jiggers, and Quorn’s sum... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | The Kraken: Revo Foods Releases the World’s First Vegan Octopus | 7 Mins Read Revo Foods has today launched the world’s first vegan octopus for retail, using its patented 3D-printing technology to transform fungi into a seafood analogue beloved by many, and one being increasingly unethically farmed.
Six m... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | OMNI Unveils Lion’s Mane Mushroom Steak & Dessert Baos at Expo West | 4 Mins Read Hong Kong-based OMNI is exhibiting two new products at this week’s Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California (March 12-16): a lion’s mane mushroom steak that’s part of its new whole-food OMNI Garden range, and a line of ... |
| Jan 25, 2024 | ‘The largest investment in mycelium in Europe…’ Infinite Roots nets $58m to scale ‘asset-light’ operation | At a time when many alt protein companies are struggling to raise funds, Hamburg-based Infinite Roots (formerly Mushlabs) has netted $58 million to scale its mycelium fermentation platform, securing capital from a leading European retailer ... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Finnish foodtech startup Enifer awarded $13.2m grant to build mycoprotein factory | Finnish startup Enifer has bagged a €12 million ($13.2 million) grant to help fund a large-scale facility growing a strain of mycelium (fungus) first commercialized as a source of pig and chicken feed 50 years ago.
The funding comes from th... |
| Jan 10, 2024 | Enifer secures €12M for first commercial-scale PEKILO® mycoprotein factory | Today Finnish biotech startup Enifer was approved for a recycling and reuse investment grant of more than €12 million to build its first commercial-scale PEKILO® mycoprotein ingredient factory.
I spoke to Simo Ellilä, CEO and co-founder of ... |
| Dec 15, 2023 | MycoTechnology’s new CEO: ‘My job is to get the company to the point where we are growing profitable revenue on a recurring basis’ | A month into his new position as CEO of Colorado-based startup MycoTechnology, Dr. Mike Leonard caught up with AgFunderNews to talk about his new role.
Leonard, who spent four years at Boston-based foodtech company Motif Foodworks—three as ... |
| Aug 21, 2023 | Fungi-based meat alternative startup Enough, founded by a former Quorn boss, just raised $43.5 million with this 16-slide pitch deck | The Enough team. Enough This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Fungi-based food startup Enough just secured $43.5 million (40 million euros) in growth funding.
The Scottish start... |
| Jun 8, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Green Coffee Co brews up $25m, ChatGPT designs robotic harvesting, Zume shuts down | Despite a general scarcity of agrifoodtech funding this week, a few companies announced notable rounds, including the Green Coffee Company, which will expand across Colombia, and Turkish food waste management startup Fazla. Elsewhere, ChatG... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Quorn & Prime Roots Collaborate to Expand Market for Mycelium-Based Alt Meats | Quorn and Prime Roots have announced a collaboration in the US to develop market expansion opportunities for mycelium-based alt meats.
The companies will also develop new products together, and Quorn will make a minority investment in Prime... |
| May 3, 2023 | The Every Company and Alpha Foods partner to create plant-based food with animal-free eggs | Dive Brief:
Plant-based food manufacturer Alpha Foods signed a joint development agreement to work with animal-free egg protein maker The Every Company.
The collaboration is intended to “accelerate improvements in the taste and texture of n... |
| Apr 27, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Restaurant order app me&u bagged $30m, Remilk approved for Israeli markets, biomaterials bonanza | This week, me&u officially announced a Series C close and alt-dairy startup Remilk got approved in Israel to enter commercial markets with its products. Several biomaterials startups made headlines with fundraises, partnerships and othe... |
| Jan 12, 2023 | 2023 Food Trends: 12 Predictions For The Future of Alt Protein | 11 Mins Read What does the alt protein industry have in store for us amidst a very turbulent 2023 ahead? A lot, actually. Below, I share my 12 crystal ball takes (in no particular order).
I sat down to write these trends and ended up writin... |
| Mar 2, 2022 | Mycorena closes $27m in Europe’s second largest alt-protein Series A | Swedish biotech startup Mycorena, which makes a mycelium protein ingredient for meat alternatives, has raised a €24 million ($26.8 million) in what it says is the largest-ever Series A funding round for an alternative protein company from t... |
| Feb 10, 2022 | Consumers Choose Quorn and Daiya as 2022 Plant-Based Products of the Year | Data consulting firm Kantar announces Quorn ChiQin Cutlets and Daiya Cheese have been chosen as 2022 Products of the Year in meatless and plant-based categories.
The annual Product of the Year Awards is the largest consumer-voted award for ... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | How Quorn plans to win the chicken alternative category in 2022 | After two decades in the U.S. market, fermented meat analog company Quorn is ready to grab a much bigger share of the chicken sector.
"I'm sure you've read about the chicken sandwich wars that are going on right now in the industry and... |
| Jan 18, 2022 | Why fermented meat analogs will steal the spotlight in 2022 | Editor's note: This story is part of a series on the trends that will shape the food and beverage industry in 2022.
Nature’s Fynd, which creates what it describes as a nutritious and versatile food protein through fermentation from a fungus... |
| Dec 19, 2021 | 10 Vegan Holiday Mains From the Pre-Made Roasts to the Best Recipes | 5 Mins Read
Dig into these delicious vegan holiday mains you can get at your local supermarket, order online, or make at home.
When it comes down to it, there’s nothing more magical about the holidays than gathering around the table with th... |
| Oct 21, 2021 | Quorn Introduces Meatless ChiQin Wings and ChiQin Cutlets in USA as Vegan Chicken Boom Continues | Following the recent appointment of actress Drew Barrymore as CMO (Chief Mom Officer), Quorn USA is adding new Meatless ChiQin Wings and ChiQin Cutlets to its existing portfolio as it continues to expand its presence in North America.
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| Sep 28, 2021 | Quorn Foods USA: “Paving the Way For New Exciting Alternative Chicken Innovations” | Last month, Quorn Foods announced the opening of a state-of-the-art Culinary Development Center in Dallas, TX, following the appointment of new leadership team in the US, with Judd Zusel as President and Stephen A. Kalil as Executive Chef.
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| Sep 21, 2021 | Aqua Cultured Foods breaks new ground in alt-seafood space with fermentation-based whole cuts | The Chicago-based company – which was founded last year by Anne Palermo and Brittany Chibe – has filed a series of patents (not yet public) covering the method of production, its usage in the food system, and the fungi strain itself, which ... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | Nowadays plant-based nuggets boast ‘unparalleled' nutritional profile: 'We don’t just need to remove animals, we need to create better products' | Founded last year by Dominik Grabinski (Kitchentown, Yeap, DSM, Cargill) and Max Elder (Institute for the Future), Nowadays seeks to punch above its weight in the category with frozen plant-based chicken nuggets with an ultra-short ingred... |
| Jan 23, 2020 | Quorn Debuts Low-Carbon Food Labels To Display Emissions Footprint Of Products | 4
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In a bid to make the environmental impact of the foods we eat more visible to consumers, Quorn, the long-time vegetarian and vegan-friendly meat substitute brand, has just launched new low-carbon food labelling on the... |
| Oct 2, 2019 | Forget animals, animal cells, and plants, says Air Protein: The most sustainable 'meat' is made from microbes… and thin air | Some companies such as Motif FoodWorks use synthetic biology to write DNA sequences that can be inserted into microorganisms to ‘instruct’ them to produce animal proteins; others such as Sustainable Bioproducts have identified microbes ... |
| Feb 14, 2019 | Sustainable Bioproducts CEO: 'Microbes are pretty damn efficient. They make great protein and they do it really fast' | Right now, producing protein – whether from peas and soybeans, or cows and chickens – is resource-intensive and time-consuming, requiring large amounts of land, energy and water, observed Thomas Jonas, who has spent four years scrutinizing ... |
| Jun 7, 2018 | Seattle Food Tech unveils mission to ‘catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat’ | The aim, says founder and CEO Christie Lagally, a mechanical engineer and former senior scientist at the Good Food Institute, is to “catapult meat alternative production toward price parity with animal-based meat” so everyone, in schools, ... |
| Mar 25, 2015 | Quorn 'categorically rejects' allegations in wrongful death lawsuit | Made from an organism found occurring naturally in the soil in a field in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, UK (Fusarium venenatum strain PTA-2684) in the 1960s, Quorn is grown in the UK using a controlled fermentation process, and is described by ... |